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Sue Wootton

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Awards

Sue has received a number of accolades for her work.

  • Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 2020
  • Shortlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2019 – ‘At Moeraki’
  • NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2018
  • Longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2018 – ‘The Swim’
  • Two poems commended in the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Rx’ and ‘As it is on Earth’
  • The Yield shortlisted for 2018 Ockham NZ Book Award for Poetry
  • Strip longlisted for 2017 Ockham NZ Book Award for Fiction
  • Shortlisted 2017 Landfall Essay Competition – ‘A Box of Bones’
  • Winner Otago Regional Award in 2016 National Flash Fiction competition – ‘Calligraphy’
  • Commended 2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Admission’
  • Winner 2015 Takahē Poetry Competition – ‘Calling’
  • Runner-up 2015 Gwen Harwood Prize (Australia) – ‘Smeuse’
  • Longlisted in 2015 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Prize – ‘The Yield’
  • Winner 2015 Caselberg Trust International Poetry prize – ‘Luthier’
  • Shared second prize in 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Wild’
  • Winner 2013 Victorian Cancer Council Arts Award for poetry –‘Daffodils’
  • Awarded the 2012 NZ Society of Authors Mid-Career Writers Grant.
  • Winner 2011 New Zealand Poetry Society international poetry competition – ‘Ice Diver’
  • Shortlisted for 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing – ‘Icy Noctiluca’
  • Winner 2010 Takahe international poetry competition – ‘Haunted’
  • Runner-up in the 2009 and 2010 BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competitions 
  • 2008 Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Winner in 2008 NZ Book Month ‘Six Pack Three’ competition – ‘Virtuoso’  (short story)
  • Finalist in 2008 Takahe and 2008 Sunday Star Times short story competitions.
  • Winner 2007 Inverawe (Tasmania, Australia) poetry competition –‘Temporal’
  • First prize in both fiction  and poetry sections of the 2006 Aoraki Literary Festival competition – ‘Weight’ (Fiction Prize) and ‘Breakfast with Raymond Carver’ (Poetry Prize)

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